Tur Yoreh Deah

Rabbi Moshe Rapp (d. 1762) was one of the great German rabbis of the 18th-century. R. Jonathan Eybeschuetz in his eulogy (published in Ya'aroth Devash) calls him "Zekan ha-dor, muvhak ba-Torah, mamash lo hiniach kemotho be-chol geliloth Ashkenaz" ("the elder of the generation, excellent in Torah, who left no one of his stature in all the states of Germany"). R. Moshe Rapp served as Supreme Head of the Frankfurt Beth Din during the tenure of R. Jacob Joshua Falk as well as Chief Rabbi of Frankfurt, 1741-51. The learned manuscript notes contained in this volume are written in the hand of R. Moshe's son, R. David (later Rabbi of Markbreit) and were composed in his father's life-time. Most of the comments, written with great erudition and depth, are direct quotes of his father's analysis: "My father the Gaon asked…my father the Gaon answered…" Occasionally the son provides his own novellae